INFORMATION AND OBJECTIVES INVENTORY

JOURNAL PROMPT #1

JOURNAL PROMPT #2

         These handouts will help with Journal #2:

                      CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND DISPOSITIONS

                   CHANGING A MAN'S MIND 

                        WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING? 

                       THE CRITICAL MIND: A VIEW OF THE STRUGGLE WITHIN 

JOURNAL PROMPT #3

JOURNAL PROMPT #4

         These handouts will help with Journal #4:

                      CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND DISPOSITIONS

                   CHANGING A MAN'S MIND 

                   WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING? 

                       THE CRITICAL MIND: A VIEW OF THE STRUGGLE WITHIN

ARQ TEXT PREVIEW

CRITICAL THINKING, READING, AND WRITING - TEXT PREVIEW

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING CRITICALLY

EXAMPLES OF DIAGRAMMING AN ARGUMENT:
     ARQ CHAPTER 3 PASSAGE 3 (p.37)
     "FIRST AMENDMENT JUNKIE" CTRW (p. 41)
     ARQ CHAPTER 6 PASSAGE (Includes analysis through value and descriptive assumptions)

Barriers to Critical Thinking Group Project:
       Description/Procedures
       Blocks to Critical Thinking

STUDY GUIDES:

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 1 - The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions (pg. 1)

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 1 - The Benefit of Asking the Right Questions (pg. 2)

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 2 - Critical Thinking is a Social Activity

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 3 - Identifying the Issue and the Conclusion

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 4  - What are the Reasons?

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 5 - What Words and Phrases are Ambiguous?

ARQ (9th ed.) Chapter 6  - What are the Value and Descriptive Assumptions?

ARQ (9th) Chapter 7 - Fallacies

ARQ (9th) Chapters 8 AND 9 - Evaluating the Evidence

ARQ (9th) Chapters 10 AND 11 - Rival Causes and Deceptive Statistics

ARQ (9th) Chapters 12 and 13  - Significant Information and Reasonable Conclusions
 

REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT / PROBLEM SOLVING MODEL  (ISSUES PROJECT):

       Cultivating Judgment

       Core Skills and Activities for Professional Problem Solving 

       Identifying the Nature of an Unstructured Problem

        Framing an Unstructured Problem

          Framing Examples - Figures 1 - 3

          Framing Example - Organ Transplantation

        Resolving an Unstructured Problem

        Readdressing an Unstructured Problem

          "ISSUES" PROJECT / POSITION PAPER GUIDELINES AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

         GE/ILO Information Literacy Rubric 

RESEARCH HELP:

Palomar College Library Information

Palomar College Online Research Databases
Critically Evaluating Electronic Material
Using the Internet for Research - A Student Research Guide to the Internet
by Donald J. Leu Jr.